Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com&gt; writes: <preeve type="pet"> > Implementing message translation is not that hard. No, it is in fact very hard to do correctly. The problem is what do when a software (system) is only partially localized. (y-or-n-p "Möchten Sie alle Daten nicht Löschen?") Möchten Sie alle Daten nicht Löschen?(y or n) j Please answer y or n. Möchten Sie alle Daten nicht Löschen?(y or n) So we localize y-or-n-p. However then the user installs some software that is in English only. (yes-or-no-p "Are you sure you are sure?") Are you sure you are sure? (ja oder nein) yes Bitte antworten Sie mit "ja" oder "nein". Are you sure you are sure? (ja oder nein) And if you think that these confusions are just harmless then please aware that in Greek "ne" means yes! (In Dutch "nee" means no and is pronounced the about same as the Greek word, so this kind of confusion also exists in the real word). I thought the main lesson we have learned from the past is that it easy to think i18n, l10m, m17m, w13n is easy[1], but it isn't. </peeve> Jan Footnotes: [1] Why is y2k a problem, but c2y and p3e are not?